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Brandon Semenuk checks in with another Raw 100
Don't you dare not watch this full screen. Revel Co. is back with yet another Raw 100, and this one – Semenuk's fourth contribution to the series – is once again the talk of the town.
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Brandon Semenuk: Raw 100, Part 4
One hundred seconds of stripped back all-thriller, no filler action. It’s a showcase for the best riders in the world and a challenge for the best filmmakers in the world.
With Revel Co. as their vehicle, Brandon Semenuk and Rupert Walker are agents of surprise and delight. You know they're in the lab tinkering away on the next big thing, you know it's only a matter of time before they drop it, and you know release day always feels good.
With their fourth kick at Raw 100, our video concept designed to challenge filmmakers to showcase their sport in real time with native audio in a 100-second video, Semenuk and Walker remind us that they're still the ones that set the bar.
Brandon Semenuk threads the needle amongst the oaks
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A "we got the shot" moment
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Working with nature
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Instant review
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As the filmmaking side of Raw 100 has evolved, so too has the course-building aspect. With each edition of Raw 100, Semenuk reminds us that he's as masterful in pushing dirt around as he is in bringing the bike community new reasons to get excited about how slopestyle bikes can be tossed around. For the build behind this particular edition, Semenuk and his crew required nine days and put in 325 hours of labour.
To add some more insight to the project, Semenuk shared some thoughts on his direction for this course.
What did you want to achieve to differentiate this build from your first three iterations of Raw 100?
A number of things: not only did we want to create different features from the last Raw 100s, but the location we chose was full of oak groves. The goal was to incorporate these trees, which were all unique in their own way. We also wanted to build the track around camera angles in ways we could manipulate the viewer's perspective.
What spoke to you about the potential of this location?
The mix of oak forest and open fields – being able to go in and out of the trees in a line.
Did anything in particular inspire the design of the features?
Just working with the landscape and my brain.
Time to shoutout to the crew. Who was the crew on the build and what did they each bring to the table?
- Will Clifford (Machine Op)
- Evan 'Intern' Young (Shaper)
- Dan Fleury (Shaper)
- Myself (Shaper, diesel runner, sandwich getter)
